JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Mayor Donna Deegan announced on Tuesday that the Northside team \u201cCollect and Connect\u201d won the 2nd Jax Litter League contest by collecting 227 bags of trash\u2014nearly four tons\u2014from Jacksonville neighborhoods.<\/p>\n
Team captain Susan Shinego led her crew to victory in the citywide competition.<\/p>\n
As the winners of the contest, the team received a game day experience to watch the Jacksonville Jaguars play the New York Jets, along with a box of Jaguars merchandise.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n The Jax Litter League is a component of Mayor Deegan\u2019s \u201cKeep Jax Cute, Don\u2019t Pollute\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n Teams from all over Jacksonville collectively removed thousands of pounds of litter from parks, streets and public spaces during the competition. <\/p>\n \u201cThe Jax Litter League shows what Jacksonville can accomplish when neighbors come together for our city,\u201d Mayor Deegan said in a news release.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Mayor Donna Deegan announced on Tuesday that the Northside team \u201cCollect and Connect\u201d won the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":460344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[7320,5229,7323,9961,210230,3188,723,7324,7310,7327,8017,210228,210229,48344,7325,7326,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7322,7321],"class_list":{"0":"post-460343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action-news-jax","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-cbs47","11":"tag-city-of-jacksonville","12":"tag-dont-pollute","13":"tag-fl","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-fox30","16":"tag-jacksonville","17":"tag-jacksonville-fl","18":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","19":"tag-jax-litter-league","20":"tag-keep-jax-cute","21":"tag-mayor-donna-deegan","22":"tag-northeast-florida","23":"tag-southeast-georgia","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa","30":"tag-wfox","31":"tag-wjax"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115752818823474453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}